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I'll always support the free boubabi movement, but speaking from first hand experience, even if we were to unban him, I do think his passion and desire to "do things" around VHL would be dramatically decreased. IMO the damage is done, and VHL has likely lost boubabi forever, regardless of his "banned" status or not. That's a very sad realization for me. ?

classic NYA villainy

Baillie went off in this game.

render choice?

h e a d h u n t e r s q u a d

??? My final thought for this thread.... Rip Higgins' recreate. Taken from us before he even got here. ?

Alright, fair enough. I will acknowledge your point here because its fair and I don't have the time to read through 16 pages and try to make points supporting boubabi... I feel his pain with award snubbing tho. ? .... I can still keep free boubabi in my signature tho, right?

If @Will is on #TeamDontFreeBoubabi I'll lay my sword down and accept defeat in this battle. (but prob not the war)

I would gladly lay down my sim life for boubabi. ???

Also I've seen the term 'driven away numerous members' thrown around multiple times before regarding sim league bans. Another horribly vague argument that is always used. What members were honestly driven away by boubabi? Can anyone legitimately produce a username who was fully active and then never showed up to VHL again strictly due to boubabi? Who are these members he apparently drove away? The majority of members who posted in this thread seem to support boubabi, and I'd argue the opposite of your guys' argument that the majority of members don't give a single fuck if he's banned or unbanned. Its the people in power who care and will change the narriative to propegate their dislike of a member. Yes I wasnt around for the time when boubabi got banned. I was around for ~15 seasons worth of time where he wasn't banned, and never saw anything besides a good contributing member who wasn't afraid to speak his mind, and who's contributions are still felt and used on VHL to this day.

You guys are changing the narriative though. The only person ive ever seen truly say 'I don't want boubabi back' is Beketov. Maybe I'm wrong, and there are actually numerous members out there who hate boubabi and never want him to return, but I sincerely doubt that. Sonnet were you even on the VHL when boubabi was here? You talk really vaguely about reading 'story after story' and talking to 'numerous members'.... What stories? What members? Feel free to alert these members and tell them to come to this thread and confirm they want boubabi hung and lynched irl because of stuff he typed out on the internet years ago. Only person I've ever seen refusing to entertain the idea of unbanning boubabi is Beketov. Full stop. This thread has numerous members who actually were here to interact with boubabi, and they all look to not give a shit about this virtue signalling lifetime ban he's on.

Shit is wild to me that I could go commit an irl crime, actually hurting someone physically, and serve a far shorter punishment than sim league 'governors' hand out for typed out e-offenses against them. ??? Again, this is not a personal attack directed specifically at you, Bek, but more of my experience with sim leagues as a whole. Isn't it time we learn to forgive and heal???

Do you ever just take a step back and think that an internet sim league really isn't that serious? That when numerous people within the community repeatedly ask for something, that maybe, there is a tiny chance, that you need to re-evaluate what's best for the whole, as opposed to your own self-interest? Is it because you've been "a member since season 1" that your decision should be final and whatever you decide goes? What makes you the one to decide what is good and what isn't good for this community? Plenty of people think you are an asshole. Maybe you should be banned too? The same can be said for me, and many other current VHLers, this is not a personal attack towards you. I really don't understand what it is with sim leagues in positions of "power" and this weird self-gratification that they prioritise at the detriment of the community they are supposed to serve.

@Beketov set it up

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5 should have got ranked higher IMHO

ROMARIS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Calgary 7-4

monstrous performance imo

the two images I listed above, just were "taken" better, I guess. the motion of the player in the two pictures I linked, are not causing a blurriness/fuzziness of the finer details of the render.

also... im pretty sure he used this image as the "stock" for the render even though it's a "high res" image (1440x2560) this is a good example of high-reso images still being "low quality". If you open the above image in it's own tab, and "zoom in" to the face (AKA view it in it's native resolution, not zoomed in or out at all) you can see it being sort of blurry/fuzzy just due to the camera used / distance / motion of the player or whatever (like so): whereas images like these (which are also 1000x1000+ aka "hi res") look a lot more HQ in the full-res.... and thus are better render choices: which look like this "close up" see how much cleaner/crisper the "lines" of his features and such look? this is a similar example of a "high quality" hi-res photo imo: basically, this is just kind of a thing to look for when selecting your render. Images like I posted above will retain better quality / look better when minimized (and also just look better in general) hopefully someone kind of sees what I'm putting down here. It's definitely something to consider when selecting your renders for your graphics.

Smart Object retains image quality during scaling much better than a 'rastersized' aka non-smart object image does. It's not like, a massive major difference, but IMHO it helps... and my theory is that he either didn't smart object, OR he didn't hold shift while down-scaling the render, which caused the render face to basically lose all quality.